Still into the idea of selling recorded music for some reason? 4 Reasons Why Fans Are File-Sharing Your Music (That You Can Change…) lists off a few things you can do to motivate listeners to spend money instead of downloading from illicit sources. I think it’s a bit of a fool’s errand. First of all, most people already have set patterns of music consumption. This would have been useful five or ten years ago–now it’s an uphill battle that the industry seems unwilling to fight as aggressively as it needs to. The situation is particularly awful in the EDM underground: most psytrance labels make it extremely difficult to hear/like/buy their music online.

Supply & Demand Killed the Music Industry by blocSonic founder Mike Gregoire argues that the democratization of the means of distribution (and the tools of production) is responsible for the collapse of the major label industry–not file-sharing. Can’t argue with that!